The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-08
F.om "a Ner Yora liraphic.

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From the Neir Yors Graphic.
When LAWYER Cohen, Of the Pacific Rail
w1, presented his bill for So, 900 to Massrs.
PJtison, Anderson and Lttler, last week,
odbehalf of the company, he started a SEN
s4ion of no small proportions. The Graphic,
rhblished what the shrewd lawyer had said
Il its reporter-that the Commissioners had
hten the food, drank the wines, smoked the
Io,ars and slept in the beds of the railway
hmpany without paying for these things
Explanations were decidly in order, and
HEY seem to have been going on ever since.
But there are several interesting incidents
connected with the accumulation of this
boz 900 account which the Graphic is in
position to make public.
When the commission first went to San
Francisco the railroad people received them
with open arms They evidently meant to
treat the three gentlemen in princely style,
bnd before they were well settled in their
hotel Senator Stanford called and invited
Them to dinner at his magnificent country
residence to meet the celebrities, male and
Female of the Pacific coast. The only one
bf the Commissioners who had dress suit
I'm his trunk was our own Mr. Anderson for
ex-Gov. Pattison is not a society man. and
bf course Mr.. Littler had never had any use
Tor such habilimentS in Illinois, SO they de-
lined the invitation. Next morning they
aled at the offices of the railroad and an
lounced themselves ready to proceed with
he investigation. what" said Vice
resident Potter, mot going to take run
trough the city and along the coast for a
kw days before beginning"
mo- said Mr.. Pattison. 1--WE are here
Ir work, and have no time to spare if we
kpect to get our report ready for Deem
kr" And the taking of testimony began.
when they were pretty well on with
eir work another attempt was made to
on the favorable side of the commission
be of the fashionable clubs gave a special
Nv OUT one evening in their honor. Gov
ttison and Mr.. Anderson attended, and
tween the chestnuts and the wine the
lway magnates therein full force frankly
fted the question as to what kind of a
brt the Commissioners would present to
kgress Mr. Pattison did his utmost to
tpe from the company without being
lively rude, but was obliged at last to
open expression to the opinion that
1t he and Mr.. Anderson had attended as
bcial reception had been evidently
Ihed to capture the commission, or at
u to embarrass it in the discharge of its
DIS. They had half dozen similar in
1ions afterward, but declined them.
e commission had been proof against
thiles o. the club men, the State officials
admitted States Senators in California,
rekred wen they saw the preparations
VIII shIiwd old Charles Crocker had
ma for tGr comfort and entertainment
oneir janis along the branches of the
rod -palpfcar, a sleeping coach, a
ding-rodnrar, a cook and assistants, who
hadputt1ns to keep up, and a stock of
suples tlawould tickle the palate of an
old-he pilrean.
van VI to consider yourselves my
gueSn sid1r. Croker land | will try
and sowyS that good wines are not all in
the Est ;tb champion cooks are obtain
able hre a that the cigars on the Pacific
coast ne her than Illinois Stogies, or
New To1k o for fivesn
I'W, ardiged to you," was Gov Patti
sons ,eply'B But as for myself, | never
drink wind the other gentlemen would
probably En- that each one pay for what
he driakJs treating the railway COM
panv on trips exactly as we do the
hotels atch we stop"
Mr.. CIR said nothing and the train
started first dinner they had on the
dining cetled the fate of the commission
as far aIenjoyment of that trip was
concernt was evident they were to
have a hey not soon to be forgotten.
When fxth course was laid ON the table
by thent, hght-f0Oted walters, the
ample hched Commissioner from Hi
nois ldacross the table at the ex-Gov-
ernor hurmured between his sips of
Saute
''Ph, how long do you think this
trip ihg to lastF'
Thhnsylvania statesman smiled Sc
renelhe answered that it had begun
verynnisingly at least. As the coffee
and candy and the cigars were brought
in, emory of the desire to pay for the
luxlpf the trip faded out, and in the
SCOT ssurroundings prepared for them
by Croclker the GOOD commissioners
finitheir trip 1t was nothing but a
delD Renaissance of their jaunt along
theific coast, one of the dreamy cpl
sodHween dry examinations, and they
hadected the road and the country and
don ir duty, and altogether had de-
lig time
Hat Cohen bill has wiped out all the
pletmemories of that well-kept dining
CAD sixteen brands of wine, and its
liz and luxuries that have made Com
Rr Littler dyspeptic ever since
Ne want any proof?' said the Cali
foMwyer why, look there. Who
ykPennsylvania saw Gov. Pattison
sna cigar before. He contracted that
hsn our special train along the coast
alwas our cigars that taught him that
dillon, and we are going to have pay
foose cigars those wines and other
ii, Or if we don't we will bring suit and
HomiSe that the testimony furnished
or side will be more interesting reading
the old cheStnuts evoked by the inves-
i'm of our roadsn
Said this morning that the commits
IS have determined to divide the
cI@ of the company and pay them out
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